Resources

City resources

City resources are specific to each City.

Culture

When a City's Culture bar fills a positive Event occurs and the city's Culture Level increases, providing increasing bonuses but also increasing costs per population. Culture is primarily increased by building Shrines and Odeons, training certain Specialists, adopting certain Laws or spreading a Religion to a City.

Culture Level	Victory Points	Governor XP/Year	Can Hurry Production	Population Upkeep	Improvements
Weak	+1	+4	No	1 Food
Developing	+2	+6	Yes	2 Food 1 Iron
Strong	+3	+8	Yes	3 Food 1 Iron 1 Stone
Legendary	+4	+10	Yes	4 Food 1 Iron 1 Stone 1 Wood

National resources

National resources are refined from natural resources and used directly by a Nation.

Resource	Use	Primary sources
Food	Feeding the population Producing settlers	Farms Farmers Fishers Ranchers
Iron	Producing military units Upkeep of certain military units	Mines
Orders	Unit actions Assigning governors Sending councilors of missions Unused orders are sold for Money at the end of the turn	Legitimacy Garrissons
Science	Researching new technologies	Freedom Law Archives I project Training specialists Members of the Court with high Wisdom
Stone	Producing improvements	Quarries
Training	Producing military units Buying Orders Moving units beyond their Movement stat Assigning generals Promotions	Miners Barracks Ranges Members of the Court with high Courage
Wood	Producing improvements Producing some military units Upkeep of certain military units	Chopping down trees Lumbermills

Natural resources

Natural resources appear on certain hexes on the map and are used to refine national resources. They can also be harvested by units that have the ability to do so.

Resource	Yearly resources (no improvement)	Yearly resources (mine)	Harvest
Ore	1 Iron	2 Training 5 Iron	10 Iron